JOHNNY CASH - NEW YORK 1994
February 27, 2013 – 4:32 am
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JOHNNY CASH
New York 1994 [no label, 2CD]
Live at The Fez Club, New York City, NY; April 13, 1994. Good to very good audience recording.
On April 26, 1994, Johnny Cash released American Recordings, one of the finest records in Cash’s career. And Cash was probably already doing some promo shows before the album was released.
In a review of American Recordings, Christopher John Farley wrote:
When [Rick] Rubin first called Cash’s manager, Cash had never heard of him or the bands whose records he had produced, except the Red Hot Chili Peppers. The lack of familiarity was somewhat mutual. Rubin admits that he doesn’t listen to much country music but says he was interested in Cash from a “mythological” standpoint. “I don’t see him as a country act,” Rubin says. “I would say he embodies rock ‘n’ roll. He’s an outlaw figure, and that is the essence of what rock ‘n’ roll is.” When he made his pitch, Rubin was persuasive. “He immediately made me understand and believe that he really wanted to get the best out of me as an artist,” says Cash. “There would be no clock in the studio; there would be no limit on the budget for recording or promotion. And that sounded good. I hadn’t heard that since ‘70.”
The production of American Recordings was high-concept and low-tech. The taping was done in Cash’s cabin in Tennessee and the living room of Rubin’s house in Los Angeles.
Thanks to the person who shared the show on the net in 2005.
Uploader’s notes:
Got a second gen master from the taper… sent off to a friend Steve P up north who mastered it to cdr… Unknown taping devices and equipment… Wonderful intimate show not widely circulated… Cash wanted to title his first American Recordings album “Late And Alone”, well that did not happen and this recording has that feel… so here ya go Johnny… with love.
Lineage:
2nd gen master tape > Unknown process > CDR > EAC > WAV > FLAC
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Disc 1
Track 101. Let The Train Blow The Whistle Blow Let The Train Whistle Blow/Bird On A Wire (10.7MB)
Track 102. Tennessee Stud/Down There By The Train (11.6MB)
Track 103. Drive On/Thirteen (9.0MB)
Track 104. Like A Soldier/Ballad Of Barbara (9.9MB)
Track 105. The Man Who Couldn’t Cry The Man Who Would Not Cry (7.7MB)
Track 106. Redemption/The Beast In Me (9.5MB)
Track 107. Folsom Prison Blues (4.3MB)
Track 108. I Walk The Line/Sunday Morning Coming Down/Ring Of Fire (14.3MB)
Disc 2
Track 201. Big River (With Rosanne Cash) (6.8MB)
Track 202. Jackson/Orange Blossom Special (10.9MB)
Track 203. Get Rhythm/Home Of The Blues (8.6MB)
Track 204. It Ain’t Me Babe (Dylan)/Will The Circle Be Unbroken (11.4MB)
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39 Responses to “JOHNNY CASH - NEW YORK 1994”
1994, gosh was it really that long ago.
I miss Cash, he was a genuine treasure.
By mojowire on Feb 27, 2013
hey bigo, thanks. i don’t have this show. i imagine irving plaza is before or after this.
a couple song corrections:
let the train blow the whistle and the man who couldn’t cry. both are on american recordings 1.
best,
ed
By Ed Saad on Feb 27, 2013
Hello Ed
Thanks for the feedback.
By bigozine2 on Feb 27, 2013
Home RUN, Bigo!!! What a wonderful surprise. I know others disagree, but for me, this period is Johnny’s finest hour. And in a small club, yet! GreatGreat posting!
By lowendbill on Feb 27, 2013
The Mighty Mighty BigO just keeps on ROCKING! February has been a vintage month around here with Zevon, Westerberg, Social D, and now THE MAN IN BLACK! Thanks…
By TDC on Feb 27, 2013
The lack of respect from the audience yapping loudly while sitting in front of an absolute Legend. Now the same people are texting in movie theaters and while driving. Sad. But it was a great performance Johnny gave.
By 4yrsnojob on Feb 27, 2013
4years you are right I could not believe the yapping going on. absolutely teen age girl behaviour which sad to say is becoming an epidemic in public.
By mojowire on Feb 27, 2013
BigO - Thanks for this post, looks great, I am about to download..
@4yrsnojob - I second your comment about the audience… there is a Cash boot from 1994 from Emo’s in Austin TX, and the yuppie assholes just yap and yap and yap and won’t shut up. They weren’t there to enjoy Johnny’s music, they were there to be seen and hang out with their yapping, drunken friends and just drink and yap some more… there should be a law allowing you to put the smack down on people who do that at concerts LOL
By ManInBlack on Feb 27, 2013
@mojowire - not sure if it is still the same, as I haven’t been to a live gig in ages.. but the 90’s was very bad for people who would snap up rare tickets for special shows, just to say “I was there” and yap and drink and yell and hoot and holler, only paying attention if they heard some big hit that they recognized.
I saw Bowie at Hollywood Palladium on Halloween 1995 - half the people there were not listening, they expected to hear “modern love” and ‘let’s dance” and kept talking and yelling drunkenly, until something DId appear that they knew… assmonkeys LOL one drunken teenage girl kept screaming “WOOOOOOOOOOHOOOO” at the top of her lungs, in the middle of the songs, for no reason other than she was drunk and stupid and not there to hear the music. I tolerated it for two songs, then verbally ripped her a new one, and she immediately shut up and moved to another part of the venue.
By ManInBlack on Feb 27, 2013
ManInBlack:
Good for you. A million times I would like to do that (and also have that effect).
By Rick on Feb 27, 2013
i shot someone who talked during a johhny cash show just to watch him die.
By barth on Feb 27, 2013
This is a great show. It’s a shame The Fez isn’t like the Bluebird Cafe in Nashville — they will throw your a$$ out if you talk during a performance.
Thanks as usual BigO — you rock. Another donation soon.
By Jim in White Plains on Feb 27, 2013
BARTH YOU ARE EFFIN` CRAZY AND I LOVE IT !..
I THINK OL CASH WOULD`VE GONE ALONE FINE WITH THAT.
By DROPKICK SARGE on Feb 28, 2013
In the ANNOYING AUDIENCE category: I have a Pink Floyd bootleg from the Rose Bowl in Pasadena in 1994 (acceptable audience quality), and through the entire show all you can prominently hear is someone yelling at people in front of them to SIT DOWN! AAAAAUUGGGHHHHHH! They should have f—ing sat down!
By Daniel Kershner on Feb 28, 2013
I hear that train a-comin, it’s bending ’round the roll, and I aint see nothin since I dont know when! I was dragged into Fool-some Prison, and time keeps stickin on. Well, my mama told me to be a good boy, don’t ever play with nuns… but I shot a man in Reno, just to dye his watch. When I see that whistle draggin, I blow my nose and cry. (guitar solo). Well, I bet there’s fancy folks sittin in those stinky dinin cars. They’re probably smokin coffee, and drinkin big cigars. Well, I know I had it comin, I know I can’t be free. But that train keeps a-torturin, and that’s what moves me. If I had some money, if that railroad train were mine, I’d shove it on down the line, far from Fool-some Prison, that’s where I want it to stay. And I’d blow that prison away. copyright 1973. by 4yrsnojob. yeah, I wrote it back then.
By 4yrsnojob on Feb 28, 2013
imagine wasting over 2 hours of a concert experience yelling at people to sit down? holy crap!! i wonder how much of the concert those people remember. i suppose they could have stood up and while theyd have been less comfortable they might have been able to hear the music and see the show better. the way it stands all they probably have is a memory of themselves yelling sit down for 2 hrs. way to go. and yes.. ive been there where people refuse to sit down. i get it but u cant make people do what they dont wanna do. people are idiots as we have seen here. they will do what they wanna do. the more u try to reason with them and get thru to them the less successful u will be. just like floyd on the 94 tour. people didnt give a crap about anyone else there. i went to 16 shows on that tour. all of em had idiots. i remember in particularly yankee stadium.. there were morons yelling lets go rangers all the way into the first 2 songs non stop. i even yelled at a few of em that theres a concert going on. its like they were clueless. sigh. and thats why many people prefer fm or sbd recordings.
By darth on Feb 28, 2013
july 9th 1996 is when cash played irving plaza btw. a full 2 yrs and 3 months later than this show and its available as a sbd.
his birthday was tuesday he died sept 12th 2003. he was 71 when he died so hed be 81 now.
By darth on Feb 28, 2013
I saw Floyd in atlanta in 94, one guy climbed up the I beam and up under the roof. They had to have cops climb up after him, they ended up having to tie him up and lower him down. It was kinda funny cause Floyd were playing Run Like Hell and I thought, damn this would make a great video.
By Paul on Feb 28, 2013
barth, I hope it was a gut shot so the fool suffered greatly. It never fails to amaze me why people go to a concert and talk during the show as if they’re at home watching TV. I ask the waitress/bartender/security to speak to the idiots, that usually does it. Sometimes it takes a second reminder.
Thanks bigO, great show!
By Dingus on Feb 28, 2013
well son i`m glad to see you have licked your wounds over the great bootleg debate and come crawling back.you not gonna mention the fact you were beaten fair and square? didn`t think so.
I`m going to get your birth certificate changed to say darth mapleson, just for humility sake.
By darths dad on Feb 28, 2013
I hope people aren’t behaving like that at Roger Waters’ WALL shows - he’d probably spit at them all over again! Although I guess his new annoyance is everybody in the audience recording video clips with their I-phones and sending them to friends during the show. Again: AAAAUUGGGHHHHH!
By Daniel Kershner on Feb 28, 2013
Is there a recording of the Irving Plaza show? I saw him there in ‘96, when he “opened” for Wilco because he was tired and didn’t want to play second. Great show made even better by how freaked-out Jeff Tweedy was to have Johnny open for them.
By JZ on Feb 28, 2013
I am still dumbfounded at the sheer stupidity that passes for a concert crowd anymore. I was taping Paul McCartney performing an acoustic set of Beatles tunes and this drunk @#$!!@# wouldn’t shut up. Instead of my head exploding, I “accidentally” spilled my coke on the idiot who stumbled off to the bathroom. Seems like the bigger the show and the bigger the ticket price the bigger the morons are.
By Elvislives on Feb 28, 2013
atlanta is one of the best shows of the 94 floyd tour tho. hope u have a recording of it.
jz - yes as i said the irving plaza show is available as a sbd. u should be able to find it easily enough if u do a search. dont make me do it for u.
i went to a series of blues cruises around nyc back in the late 80s early 90s. they were incredible. one of them had taj mahal and dave van ronk. i started recording it i sat in 2nd row so it wasnt so obvious that i had a tape recorder in my lap. the idiots on the boat were so loud and obnoxious and rude and ignorant that there was no way to hear him much less record the show. i turned it off after the 2nd song and said nevermind to my then wife. i said i would never wanna listen to that tape. it would upset me too much. it continued constantly thru out the taj mahal set and im sure both musicians were sorry they ever signed on to do that cruise. there were other similar cruises that were better like ronnie earl and the broadcasters and buddy guy and well it goes on and on. i probably saw 35 different cruises. sure wish i could go on that tangerine dream yes etc etc progrock cruise coming up. that would be a dream.
there was one time i recorded a show by badfinger at a club in the village in nyc. there was a hell of a lot of noise going on but i kept the mic under the table and listened to the tape when i got home. its almost like there was no one in the club but me and the band. the tape was clearly audience but it came out phenomenal. i dont know why. the noise the crowd made seemingly just disappeared. the band sadly was just joey and the drummer at that time with other new younger musicians. they sounded wonderful. the club was on bleeker street. think it was the rock n roll cafe. they played there quite often. i just had never recorded a show of theirs before. not in person anyway. i have heard audience recordings that i couldnt differentiate from soundboards. they were that good. its not often mind u but it happens.
By darth on Feb 28, 2013
hey darth you ever heard any of my bootlegs ?
By lionel mapleson on Mar 1, 2013
sure wish i could go on that tangerine dream yes etc etc progrock cruise coming up. that would be a dream.
just go then.
By blank marauder mail on Mar 1, 2013
liarnel- no. no one has. not even your biggest fan here. u know the one.. failure-to-drop-left-testicle-sarge
By darth on Mar 1, 2013
darth, has he been teabagging u? is that why u mention dropping testicles?
By barth on Mar 1, 2013
“…and said nevermind to my then wife.”
She never said nevermind to me!
By Dingus on Mar 1, 2013
darth don`t know bootlegs!
By blank marauder mail on Mar 1, 2013
yeah if I got owned that badly I would pretend lionel mapleson bootlegs don`t exist also.
right darth?
By someone gets owned on Mar 1, 2013
“…and said nevermind to my then wife.”
obviously she had a moment of clarity.
By judge juhdee on Mar 1, 2013
funny how the one who pretends to know everything about recorded music knew absolutely nothing about the real history of bootlegged recordings.
By glen hoffman on Mar 1, 2013
very funneee guys, so what if i didn`t know what i said i knew when i surely didn`t know it .
By darf on Mar 1, 2013
the name of the venue is “Time Under Fez”. It’s in the basement of the Fez Café in lower Manhattan. Great Café - great venue!
By KnollwoodArchvies on Mar 2, 2013
arrrggghhh will not this bootleggery thing just go away !!!
By plegm frohman on Mar 2, 2013
I’ve already paid the usher at Nassau Colliseum to sit in the penalty box to get away from woooooohoooooooo! in my ear at a Clapton show. It’s a real drag. Sometimes I wonder why people pay to go to a show and just bullshit the whole time. Have people gotten ruder or am I just getting less patient. The main reason I don’t go to shows that much anymore is because they’ve gotten so expensive and because of that the audiences seem to be filled with “look at me types” that aren’t there to really HEAR the music just to say they were there.
By David on Mar 3, 2013
thanks, bigO - johnny is always good.
I-)
By I-) on Mar 6, 2013
btw, i had to re-download every file - the download said it was done, but the file size did not match. i did it, but only because it is johnny.
I-)
By I-) on Mar 6, 2013